The duration of the action is 12 months, and the works will be
developed throughout 2012.

The objectives of the action:

This action aims at obtaining and assessing
socio-economic, environmental and climatic data, develop updated water accounts
according to water availability and existing demands in the JúcarRiver Basin
district, all which would allow assessing existing desertification risks. It is intended, through management and water savings recommendations, to contribute
to halting water scarcity, drought and desertification in the basin.

Propose a
methodology for the management of data and their integration in the
aforementioned systems.

Obtain updated
water accounts and detect desertification risks in the basin.

Assess results
and transmit them to managers and stakeholders through a participative process.

Establish a
series of recommendations for feasible water savings options and management
measures targets.

Transfer and
disseminate results to EU and non-EU Mediterranean countries.

Tasks to be developed

The works of this action are divided in 6 main
activities:

Establishment of
background and context.

Collection of
data and contacts with administrations and other partners.

Use of ECRINS and SEEA-W with local data.

Assessment and
recommendations.

Meetings and
deliverables.

Dissemination and
capacity building.

Expected
results

Through this action it is intended to share with the European water community the possibility of obtaining detailed water accounts that can
contribute to obtain a better knowledge on the European river basins status. In
addition, it will develop an assessment and identification of water saving and
management measures to halt desertification in the basin, through a sustainable
water use in harmony with the environment. This exercise will in turn
contribute to the political process “A Blueprint to safeguard Europe’s
Waters”.

'ECRINS' is acronym for European catchments and RIvers network System. it is a fully connected system of watersheds, rivers, lakes, monororing stations, dams made from the JRC CCM2.1 and many other sources. Compared to CCM, ECRINS offers a smaller number (138,000 instead of >2,000,000) of elementary catchments which average size is 92km2. Only the main drainage system, nevertheless comprissing ~1,4 million km of rivers has been kept. The IG is organised in four folders. the "hydrography" provides the current and archived layers of ECRINS, the "documentation" provides the construction, coding and data models, "Ancillary data" provides computed data (e.g. Corine LC per elementary catchment) and "WISE data" the publicly available data sets reproted under the WFD and which end host is normally ECRINS. When updated data sets (e.g. lakes and dams, river naming, etc.) become avaiable, they will be added in the adequate folder.